{"product_id":"renaissance-inquisitors-dominican-inquisitors-and-inquisitorial-districts-in-northern-italy-1474-1527-9789004160941","title":"Renaissance Inquisitors: Dominican Inquisitors and Inquisitorial Districts in Northern Italy, 1474-1527","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael Tavuzzi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Renaissance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the Renaissance there was no centralized Inquisition in northern Italy until Pope Paul III founded the Roman Inquisition in 1542, but there was a dense network of autonomous papal inquisitors. Based on extensive archival research, this study investigates the life of the Dominican friars from whom these inquisitors were mostly drawn. It focuses on a selection of hitherto almost unknown but representative inquisitors to cast new light on their formation, appointment and careers, as well as their principal pursuits - the prosecution of heretics, especially Waldensians and Judaizers, and, most of all, the hunting of witches, for it was at its most intense in northern Italy during the Renaissance, over a century before reaching its peak in Northern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47891949617303,"sku":"9789004160941","price":19074.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789004160941.webp?v=1781185239","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/renaissance-inquisitors-dominican-inquisitors-and-inquisitorial-districts-in-northern-italy-1474-1527-9789004160941","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}